Megawatts are not megawatt-hours and other responses to Willis et al.

Energy Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2070-2073

  Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Avian mortality; Wind energy; Wind power

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY RESOURCE;

AVES;

EID: 75149198544     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.08.052     Document Type: Note

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